Improved key-guard



@anni @titille BRADDOCK R. HATHAWAY, OF

Moni/10N ISLAND, camrornna.`

Letters Patent No. 95,682, dated- 'October`12, 1869.

.IMPROVED KEY-GUARD.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

the key-bolt land exact, reference being had to the drawings, in

Which- )Figure 2 gives a perspective view key, with keeper attached.

My invention consists 4in the employment of a curved metal plate-0r shield, guard, and hooks, combined with a spring, which, being suitably attached to the key and door, act in conjunction, and eifectually protect the bolt by securing -the key.

In the drawing, g. 2

A is the shield.

b la, the hooks.

C, the spring, enclosed in a' tube, H.

E, a springhook.

F, an eye,l secured to the door.

Gr, a ring.

One end of -the shield A is attached to the spring.

of a door-lock and The other has a narrow 'slit cut from the centre, equal in width to the diameter of the key-stem, at a point next the rim or bow.

down, forming the hooks b b, clasping the rim or bow of the key. This channel is cut of snfoient depth low the turn of the hooks.

As the lower end of the shield A is carried toward the door, the key-stemlias a firm bearing on the bota tom, bracing the key-stem 'and giving power to the hooks, which is retained by the tension of the spring from .the door, either above orbelow the lock.

E is an ordinary snap-hook, which, lwith a slight pressure, the keeper to the door, as desirable. I

F is a small eye, fastened to the door with a screw or screws, and to whichthe hook Eis applied in attaching the keeper to the door. y

D represents the guard, which opens and closes with a swinging movement, being secured to the shield A by arivet or screw.

I claim the'key-keeper, composed of the plate A and hooks b b, to place over the bend or rirn of the key, the cani D for fastening it, and the spring and hook for securing it to the door. v

. B. R. HATHAWAY.

Witnesses:

WM. LAND, B. F. GRAVES.

. The points on either side of this slit are then turned to leavev at least the diameter of the key-stem beallows either the removal 01'. application ot 

